Metadata Synchronization

When combining different algorithms they have to speak the same language in order to talk to each other. This page lists projects that work on metadata for multimodal fusion. Please add work you know or you own research if it is not listed here.

Standards out there

Name	Purpose	Link
LSCOM	Multimedia Concept Lexicon	http://www.lscom.org/index.html
MPEG 7	Multimedia Content Description Interfaces	MPEG-7 is not free, overview
MPEG 21	Open Framework for Multimedia Applications	MPEG 21 is not free, overview
IPTC	Photo Metadata	http://www.iptc.org
XMP	Extensible Metadata Platform	Commercial, open standard overview